Big Pine French Toast Recipes

Steps:

• Combine brown sugar, butter and cinnamon; spread evenly in a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan; set aside. Combine eggs and milk in a shallow dish; place bread in dish and soak for 5 minutes, turning once. Place bread over sugar mixture. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. Serve brown sugar side up; dust with confectioners' sugar.

Steps:

• Set oven to 400 degrees.
• Lightly grease a 13 x 9-inch baking dish.
• Set oven rack to middle position.
• In a saucepan, melt butter over medium-low heat; stir in the brown sugar until dissolved.
• Add in the drained crushed pineapple; stir well to incorporate.
• in a bowl, whisk together eggs, whole milk, half and half, reserved 1/4 cup pineapple juice, salt, cinnamon and vanilla.
• Lightly grease baking dish.
• Spread pineapple/brown sugar mixture evenly over bottom of dish.
• Dip the bread slices into milk/egg mixture, and arrange in one layer on top of pineapple mixture (use as much bread is need to cover the pinapple, more than 9 slices may be needed for this).
• Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until bread is golden.

Steps:

• Cut each slice of bread into bite size pieces.
• In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, whipping cream, milk, vanilla, 1 Tablespoon of sugar and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon.
• In a large saucepan over medium heat, melt butter.
• After butter is melted, dip each piece of bread in egg mixture, let excess drip off and place in saucepan.
• You won't be able to cook all of the bread at one time, so work with just enough pieces to fill the bottom layer of the pan.
• Saute your french toast bites until they begin to golden.
• Once one side is golden brown, flip over and cook the other side until golden brown and crispy on the outside.
• In a separate bowl, mix together remaining sugar, cinnamon and brown sugar.
• Transfer hot french toast bites to bowl and toss in cinnamon and sugar mixture until coated.
• Serve with syrup and sprinkled with more sugar and cinnamon.